Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754106Ab1BBAtG (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Feb 2011 19:49:06 -0500 Received: from mail-qw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.216.46]:54718 "EHLO mail-qw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751966Ab1BBApN (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Feb 2011 19:45:13 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=FkYDWk8OHmPddA2yBt0BZCiL1u/n4DyRdzZSob296DvIqBrK5CxcD2yS0vgjlJD9PY InSfecgwkq4lGo6lw/te1LtGBbHSjPWOyBH4prJQHSvaf9HAVoM8u4vRCHspHh3j5NQB u0zJV1O4T+w6nDAVTUP0300coebND4vXjNW0Q= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 19:45:12 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 1vvOabIKK8kuvqu9JMpdgk4lObg Message-ID: Subject: Re: Support for Android for mac80211 / cfg80211 802.11 drivers From: Bob Copeland To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: linux-wireless , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Amod Bodas , Senthilkumar Balasubramanian , Sree Durbha , Deepak Dhamdhere , Xin Jin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 947 Lines: 22 On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > We get poked every now and then for Android support for mac80211 or > cfg80211 drivers. Since the questions is quite common I figured It'd > be good to document what needs to get done for this. Android folks, > you listening? > > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/Android > > If you already have worked on this or are going to please feel free to > update the wiki so no one else re-invents the wheel. I don't think it's good to advocate a custom driver. They should be able to use stock wpa_supplicant w/ nl80211 and put the extensions in the hardware layer. -- Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/